Norway Employment Rate

Employment Rate in Norway decreased to 67.20 percent in the first quarter of 2019 from 67.60 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018. Employment Rate in Norway averaged 68.36 percent from 1988 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 71.80 percent in the second quarter of 2008 and a record low of 63 percent in the first quarter of 1993.

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Norway Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.20	3.50	5.10	2.40	percent	[+]
Employed Persons	2717.00	2717.00	2717.00	1991.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	77793.00	76663.00	188587.00	38220.00		[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	69.90	70.10	74.10	60.20	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.90	1.00	2.00	0.30	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	9.60	10.20	15.70	6.80	percent	[+]
Productivity	102.80	102.27	102.80	57.16	Index Points	[+]
Labour Costs	122.30	122.80	133.40	53.40	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	75700.00	59700.00	78500.00	1395.00		[+]
Wage Growth	3.35	2.97	18.56	1.07	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	108.00	103.90	152.20	78.90	Index Points	[+]
Population	5.30	5.26	5.30	3.57	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	62.00	62.00	62.00	62.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	62.00	62.00	62.00	62.00		[+]
Part Time Employment	673.10	647.50	699.00	531.90	Thousand	[+]
Wages	47220.00	45380.00	47220.00	20126.00	NOK/Month	[+]
Employment Change	0.50	0.50	1.60	-1.00	percent	[+]
Employment Rate	67.20	67.60	71.80	63.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	1916.10	1950.10	1950.10	1558.80	Thousand	[+]

In Norway, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. This page provides - Norway Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Norway Employment Rate - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on June of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	67.20	67.60	71.80	63.00	1988 - 2019	percent	Quarterly	NSA

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Mexico	96.50	Apr/19	96.75	97.23 : 93.58	%
Switzerland	80.60	Dec/18	80.5	81.3 : 76.9	%
Netherlands	77.90	Dec/18	77.7	77.9 : 63.5	%
Germany	76.50	Dec/18	76.3	76.5 : 63.6	%
United Kingdom	76.10	Mar/19	76.1	76.1 : 65.6	%
France	66.10	Mar/19	66.1	66.1 : 63.5	%
Spain	63.58	Mar/19	64	67.18 : 54.91	%
Australia	62.40	Apr/19	62.4	62.9 : 54	%
Canada	62.20	May/19	62.1	63.7 : 56	%
South Korea	61.50	May/19	60.8	61.6 : 56.1	%
United States	60.60	May/19	60.6	64.7 : 55	%
Japan	60.50	Apr/19	60.3	63.5 : 55.9	%
Russia	59.00	Apr/19	59.1	66.6 : 58.8	%
Italy	58.80	Apr/19	58.9	58.9 : 55.3	%
Brazil	54.20	Apr/19	53.9	57.3 : 53.1	%
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